The signal chat by Waltz Woes Snowball while Trump Admin defends National Security Advisor

President Donald Trump The national security councilor, Mike Waltz, has repeatedly returned to hot water in the last few days, starting from a tumult of the Democrats for a signal loss of signal chat with high -ranking national security officials that has been snowed since then.

Trump and his administration, however, have repeatedly defended the leader of national security publicly.

Waltz, who previously was a member of the Florida Congress and as decorated green cap, was put under fire by Democrats and critics since March, when Jeffrey Goldberg, editor -in -chief of the Atlantic magazine, published a Firstty report to be added to a group of signal chat with top with top with top national security leaderincluding Waltz, the defense secretary Pete Hegseth and the CIA director John Ratcliffe, while discussed strikes against the terrorists of Yemen.

The signal is a encrypted messaging app that operates similarly to text messages or telephone calls, but with further security measures that help to ensure that communications are maintained private to those included in correspondence.

The Mike Waltz national security consultant assumes the responsibility for “embarrassing” signal chat losses

President Donald Trump believes that a staff of the National Security Councilor Mike Waltz could accidentally add the Atlantic publisher to the signal chain of the signal that in the end was leaked to the press. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

The Atlantic report characterized the Trump Administration As “war plans” text messages regarding a planned strike on the Houthi in Yemen rebels. The Trump administration has claimed, however, that no classified material was transmitted in the chat, with Trump who repeatedly defends the waltz in the middle of the relapse.

NSC confirms Mike Waltz and the staff used Gmail for government communication

“As the president clarified, Mike Waltz continues to be an important part of His national security team“The Secretary for Printing the Trump Administration Karoline Leavitt told the media in short observations outside the press room of the White House on Monday afternoon.” And this case was closed here in the White House, as far as we are concerned. ”

President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly defended the National Security Councilor Mike Waltz. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“There have been steps made to ensure that something like this obviously can never happen again,” he continued. “And we are going on. And the President and the President and Mike Waltz and the entire national security team have worked very well together, if you look at how safer the United States of America are due to the leadership of this team.”

Trump reveals who was behind the loss of the signal text chain

Fox News Digital has completed a temporal sequence of direct accusations and indignation and involving Waltz from the first report of the Atlantic on the loss of chat.

• March 24: The Atlantic publishes a report that Goldberg was added to a signal chat that said that national security leaders were discussing “war plans” with each other.
• March 25: Trump tells NBC News that he believes that a staff in the Waltz office was behind him erroneously adding the Atlantic editor to the group chat.
• March 25: democratic indignation for the Atlantic article, including Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the democratic maximum of the Senate’s intelligence committee, invoking Waltz and Hegseth to resign.
• March 25: the director of the National Whancence Tulsi Gabbard and the CIA director John Ratcliffe join an annual hearing of the Senate’s intelligence committee and report that no classified material was shared in the chat and that Signal’s chat was “lawful”.
• March 25: Waltz joins Fox News and assumes “full responsibility” for the loss of Signal chat. Waltz added that “100 %” personally did not know Goldberg before the signal debacle. “I take full responsibility for me. I built the group,” said Waltz “The corner of Ingraham” March 25. “It’s embarrassing. We’ll get to the bottom.”
• “I take full responsibility for me. I built the group,” said Waltz “The corner of Ingraham” March 25. “It’s embarrassing. We’ll get to the bottom.”
• March 26: politician reports that anonymous sources discovered that Trump was irritated by the waltz for loss, while the president publicly defended Waltz as “a very good man”.
• March 26: The Atlantic publishes a stalking story that included texts directed by Signal’s chat, but in particular did not include the “war plans” phrase in its title, instead characterizing the texts as “attack plans”.
• March 26: Administration’s officials disappoint the Atlantic follow-up history as an exhibition of a “hoax” against Trump. Waltz has also doubled that Signal’s messages published in the Atlantic article did not include “positions. No source and methods. No war plan”.
• March 26: Leavitt says that Elon Musk and his team of the government’s efficiency department would help to investigate the loss of the signal.
• March 28: politician reports that Trump did not want to shoot the waltz and “give the press a scalp”, according to the anonymous sources that are familiar with private discussions.
• March 30: Goldberg joins Kristen Welker of NBC News and says that Waltz’s statements that the two had never met or spoken are “simply not true”.
• March 31: Leavitt declares that the signal case is “closed”, reiterating that “Mike Waltz continues to be an important part of his national security team”.
• April 1: Washington Post reports that the staff of Waltz and National Security Counsel has used Gmail to conduct government affairs. NSC Spokesman Brian Hughes Pushed Back On The Washington Post Report in A Comment Provided to Fox Digital Thursday: “This is the Latest Attempt to District the American People From President Trump’s Successful National Security Agenda That’s Protecting Our Nation. Received email and calendar invites from Legacy contacts on his personal email and cc’d Government Accounts for Anything Since Janugue 20th to Ensure Compliance with Records Retection, and He Has Never Sent material classified through his account and personal email or any platform not guaranteed.
• “This is the last attempt to distract the American people from the national successful security agenda of President Trump who is protecting our nation. Let me reiterate, NSA Waltz has received and -mail and invitations to the calendar from Legacy contacts on his personal e -mail and with the CC’D Government accounts for anything to guarantee January 20 to ensure compliance with the registers and has never sent materials or on any unprotected platform. “
• April 1: the chamber supervision democrats open an investigation into the use of Gmail by Waltz.
• April 2: politician reports that the Waltz office has created at least 20 different chats of signal groups to coordinate with other officials. NSC rejects that the signal is allowed on government devices and is an app used by both Biden and Trump administrations: “The signal is an approved and encrypted messaging app and any complaints the NSC officials who send information classified on these channels are false. It can be used for non -classified messaging and a user has the responsibility to preserve any official record created”, he said that the comments of Thursdays are on Thursday comments. scheduled on Thursday provided to Fox Digital. “Some in NSC, such as those of the media and many areas of the Federal Government, use the Signal App. There are federal agencies that automatically install the app on government devices, as has been testified in the hearings of the Congress last week. The use of the signal to send un classified information is appropriate for the president’s advertisement.
• “The signal is an approved and encrypted messaging app and any complaints NSC officials who send information classified on these channels are false. It can be used for non -classified messaging and a user has the responsibility to preserve any official record created,” Hughes said on Thursday comment provided with Fox Digital. “Some in NSC, such as those of the media and many areas of the Federal Government, use the Signal App. There are federal agencies that automatically install the app on government devices, as has been testified in the hearings of the Congress last week. The use of the signal to send un classified information is appropriate for the president’s advertisement.
• April 3: The New York Times reports that the far -right activist Laura Loomer presented a list of staff of the national security consultant to Trump who has been unfair and should be fired.

The Mike Waltz National Security Councilor speaks during a meeting in the White House Cabinet Room on March 25, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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